Humble Bundle: Sid Meier’s Ultimate Collection

By | February 23, 2022
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The Humble Bundle has made a Sid Meier Bundle, containing a lot of our favourite games!If you pay at least 13.25€, you get

  • The original Colonization
  • Civ3 complete
  • Civ4 complete
  • Civ5 complete
  • Civ: Beyond Earth – The Collection
  • Sid Meier’s Starships
  • Civ6 and all addons and DLC (besides the NFP, where you get a 15€ coupon)

As other minor games included are the early games of Sid, Sid Meier’s Pirates, Sid Meier’s Railroads, Covert Action and the remakes of Ace Patrol, Sid Meier’s Ace Control and Ace Control: Pacific Skies.

All keys are available via Steam for Windows, some are available for Mac and Linux. All donations coming from this Humble Bundle go to Trees, Water, People, a charity which has started by planting trees, but is now doing a lot more. The recommended price for this Humble Bundle is 25€, and we can’t say this would be too much for all these games, it’s rather too little for all the play time you get out of it.
This humble bundle is avialable for the next 14 days, until March 9. But get it now, and contribute to the already 730€ which have already been raised for charity!

Discuss this Humble Bundle in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/humble-bundle-sid-meiers-ultimate-collection.675540/

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #128

By | February 22, 2022
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And it’s again time for our next Civ6 “Game Of The Month”, where you can show us that you’re best at civ-ing!

This time you play as Gorgo of Greece on a standard-size TSL Europe map on King level. As additional challenge you have to go for culture victory, while the AI is not restricted and can beat you in all other categories. You have time until March 13 to finish this game.

You can find all the details here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6otm128-announcement.675328/

Robert Zubek: Humankind and the rhetoric of tech trees

By | February 21, 2022
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Robert Zubek, the author of the book “Elements of Game Design”, has written a blog post about the tech tree differences between Humankind and Civilization 5. He first talks about the tech tree as a game mechanic device to simulate progress, and afterwards talks about the differences between the two games, mostly that Humankind’s tech tree focuses way more on warfare than the Civ5 tech tree, while omitting other fundamental achievements of humanity.

An excerpt:

“In this tech tree, the arts and sciences are simply not a part of the model. They don’t exist in the game world, they can’t be researched, they’re not part of human history at all. Instead, war technologies are first-class innovations, and must be researched in order to progress through history.

This is a very martial view of history, of what kinds of human developments are worthy of rememberance.

But this isn’t the only way this could have played out. For instance, if we look at another game like Civilization 5 (which was a clear inspiration behind Humankind), its tech tree is very different. All the items I mentioned as missing, the various arts and sciences, show up there.”

You can read the full blog post here: http://robert.zubek.net/blog/example-humankind.html, and discuss it in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/robert-zubek-humankind-and-the-rhetoric-of-tech-trees.675499/

(The picture is availabe under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, from Humankind Wiki: Technology)

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #231

By | February 19, 2022
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And right after Valentine’s day it’s again time to give Civ4 some more love! You have the chance of a new game, this time with Sitting Bull on a heavily-edited standard-size great plains map on emperor level. You get some extra-time, and can finish this game until March 29!

For all the infos, please see here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-231-sitting-bull-emperor-starts-feb-15.675324/

TurnBasedLovers: 10 Intriguing Turn-Based RPGs & Strategy Games

By | February 18, 2022
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TurnBasedLovers have again published a new article (together with a video) about some of the most interesting games for 2022. The list includes this time mostly RPGs, but there are also 2 games potentially of interest for us CivFanatics:

  • Dominus, which is a turn-based multiplayer empire-management game. Right now it looks heavy on battles, but the battles definitely look better for a video. So we’ll see when it’s released how much inspiration from Civ they took
  • Citizens, a turn-based city builder. It also includes puzzle-elements, a campaign, and a demo is also available, for everyone who is interested.

Read the whole article at TurnBasedLovers here.

Total War: Warhammer III released

By | February 17, 2022
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SEGA has released the latest part of the Total War series, Total War: Warhammer III.
As in with other Total War games, it has a strategic map, but real time battles on a separate map. It’s not set in a historical setting, but rather in the Warhammer fantasy universe.

More info: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-iii-faq/
The game costs 59.99€ (Epic Games Store; Steam).

Discuss the game in our forum here.

Old World patch #84

By | February 16, 2022
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Mohawk Games, the creators of Old World, have released the latest patch for their game. This update includes balance changes, new events, and more. For the patch notes please see here, and you can discuss them in our forum here.

Sales: Civ3, 4, 5 and 6 and Civ:BE on sale!

By | February 16, 2022
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Sales

It’s currently again sales time, and many titles of our most beloved game series are on sale!

Thanks to our user Gelion for notifying us :).